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February 23, 2012 06:46PM
SCI has $1.75 phone shops...

I won't do $3 phone shops, let alone $1.75...
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February 23, 2012 09:10PM
Those are wealthy ones. EEE used to have fifty cent ones.
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February 24, 2012 12:15AM
Next thing they will say is we will give you a quarter to make the call!

I bet that someone will sign up for them though! ;-o
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February 24, 2012 01:41AM
I used to do $3 automotive sales call shops and won't bother with them anymore because they require narrative about every part of a 2 minute phone call - I hate that.
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February 25, 2012 03:58PM
wow...this is simply ridiculous. $1.75 phone calls? Do these people really think that someone will sign up?

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February 25, 2012 04:26PM
Unfortunately, they're right. People DO sign up, which is why they get away with it. I won't do any phone calling for under $6 and the ones under $10 must be very simply and straight forward. It's a matter or principle and what I feel my time is worth.

rardon Wrote:
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> wow...this is simply ridiculous. $1.75 phone
> calls? Do these people really think that someone
> will sign up?
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February 25, 2012 04:26PM
rardon Wrote:
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> wow...this is simply ridiculous. $1.75 phone
> calls? Do these people really think that someone
> will sign up?


I know! I was think 1960 wages when I saw that....
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February 26, 2012 06:03AM
Huge profit margin!
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February 26, 2012 08:54AM
I rarely do phone calls because I won't take the chance of getting stuck doing a $15 report for $5 or less. It's happened so many times, (Intellishop, Customer Service Experts), I've pretty much given up on P/Cs completely. I think they are stressful and would rather just go do a shop. With that being said, I will still do them if I can see the report ahead of time and know it can be done quickly.

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February 26, 2012 01:58PM
This week, I was offered an on-going project of monthly phone calls. Thinking this would be easy, I let the scheduler know I was interested. She gets back to me and tells me the salary. Are you sitting down? $1 per call! I told her I was no longer interested. She said, but it only takes about 5 minutes per call. And the report? Oh, it's very short, she says. Yeah, and I don't work for $12/hour or less, so sorry.

Worse part is we all know some poor sucker (i.e. newbie) took these on and is all proud to be making $12/hour without leaving their home.
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February 26, 2012 07:46PM
MtlShopper Wrote:
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> This week, I was offered an on-going project of
> monthly phone calls. Thinking this would be easy,
> I let the scheduler know I was interested. She
> gets back to me and tells me the salary. Are you
> sitting down? $1 per call! I told her I was no
> longer interested. She said, but it only takes
> about 5 minutes per call. And the report? Oh,
> it's very short, she says. Yeah, and I don't work
> for $12/hour or less, so sorry.
>
> Worse part is we all know some poor sucker (i.e.
> newbie) took these on and is all proud to be
> making $12/hour without leaving their home.

Oh my Gosh! $1.00! You can buy less than a 1/4 gallon of gas with that...or a pack of gumsmiling smiley gee....

I saw this: BONUSED SHOP HURRY NOW! I looked at the shop price and it was bonused $1......ugh...

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/26/2012 07:47PM by SunnyDays2.
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March 04, 2012 03:42PM
I don't do phone shops for less than $5 and they have to give me more than 4. $20 an hour (even though the call is less than 5 min, the reports take a total of 15-20 minutes), is fair pay. If they send me less than 4, I request to be unassigned and explain why. That has happened only once, and they came back and gave me more so I would do them. Sometimes negotiating works best.
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March 04, 2012 06:27PM
I've done some $2 shops, but they were recorded with Vocalzilla, quick calls, and had three questions on the report - no nartative. The report took maybe two minutes if that. I could hav e completed 7 or 8 in an hour.
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